Jonas In The Giver

Jonas is a receiver of memory so he can see some colors. Jonas will receive memories from the Giver and that’s where Jonas will get see some colors. The Giver was the old receiver of memory. Jonas also gets to see some stuff no one else will see and he knows what bad there is in the village. Jonas does not like the strict rules of the community either.

Jonas feels the warmth of the sun, the joy of sledding, and love of a family. He also begins to see color and soon the color transfers over from the memories to his everyday vision. Jonas, already a curious boy, wonders why the elders would want to take away such wonderful experiences. He thinks everybody should experience these extraordinary emotions and senses. Jonas’ passion soon overwhelms his actions. He tries to allow the people close to him to see and feel what he does. He asks his parents if they love him but they say love is a meaningless word, that instead they enjoy him. Jonas also tries to discuss things with his friends, only they do not understand the things he says. Jonas does find someone to share his memories with though, Gabriel. He helps Gabriel sleep by transmitting peaceful memories to him.

The Giver teaches Jonas about color. “ Dumbfounded, he stared at it. This time it was not a fleeting impression. This time the sled had--and continued to have, as he blinked, and stared at it again--that same mysterious quality that the apple had so

The community has never seen color and for a long time Jonas has not either until he got his job as the receiver, and then about one year into his job he started he started see all of the colors, which brought a lot of conflict to his life, all because of sameness. For example, “ Things would change with Gabe,” Jonas went on. “ Things could be different. I don’t know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors.” and grandparents,” he added, staring through the dimness towards the ceiling of his sleeping room.” And everybody would have memories” (164).Things changed with Jonas when Gabrielle moved into his house, they have many similarities including blue eyes. The community has never celebrated holidays and did not have any other relatives other than their parents and one sibling. For example, “ After a life of sameness and predictability, he was awed the surprises that lay beyond each curve on the road ” (215). There is never any surprises in any ones life because everyone is ruled or controlled. It is so easy to predict what is going to happen each day because of sameness. There would not be so much conflict if it was not

Throughout the novel Giver, Jonas was questioning his society and community. Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of the emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas starts to question his community when Jonas starts to feel emotions from getting memories. Jonas became to reject his society because he finds out what his community actually is. In the beginning of the novel, Jonas accepts his society's rules but once he starts to feel the memories of the past Jonas questions, and if they purposely took that out for the rest of the community.

Jonas’ has had a variety of interesting experiences throughout the book. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about Jonas and he goes through many changes in his life with some help from the Giver. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader for every action there is a consequence. Although some readers may believe that there will not be a consequence, Jonas’ experiences show that there are good and bad consequences for everything you do.

In Jonas society, nobody knows any information about anything. The elders, who are in the Giver’s community, believe that no community members except for them and the Receiver of memory should know all the information. Even in the beginning of the training, Jonas thought that he had to protect people from wrong choices. But, the Giver agreed that it was safer. Jonas was getting mad about how the memories couldn't be shared with everyone, so he decided to run away on his bike with Gabe. They decided to make a plan to leave. The Receiver and Gabe left the community together. Life is full of color, even though life was remained in this society, it was not colorful. All the bad days and good days were very valuable to

Before he got the memories of color, he had small snippets of color thrown at him. he thought of them as odd but never pondered on it. When he saw the apple or Fiona's hair. They were small things compared to the memories he received. He was color blind, never a thought about them until the memories. He wanted the color, He stated “But I want them!” Jonas said angrily. ‘It is not fair!” . He said it as he had no choice over the colors “then there aren’t any choices.” He may be thinking about so acutely. Say the color of a tunic. But he is right in broader terms too. He has no choice over any thing until he becomes the Receiver of Memories. He learns the world is not all sunshine and lollipops. He coveted over the colors, he wanted them.

Jonas learned, through the memories the names of colors; and now he began to see them all, in his ordinary life”(97). This supports the fact that his whole life before receiving training he had never seen colors. That is not fun at all, I would never want to live in a world like that. I think that it’s unfair for everyone in that community to never be able to have any

He describes, “back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called color.” (Lowery 94) Jonas cannot understand why he is beginning to see the color of red, although the Giver says there are a lot of colors. The Giver tells Jonas, “When you mentioned Fiona’s hair, it was the clue that told me you were probably beginning to see the red.” (Lowery 94) “Jonas looked at her. She was so lovely. For a fleeting instant he thought he would like nothing better than to ride peacefully along the river path, laughing and talking with his gentle female friend.” (Lowery 135) Jonas secretly likes Fiona. Jonas’s special emotion that he didn’t understand makes Jonas see red that represents love. So, the color of red symbolizes love. Now that he sees colors, he can experience all kinds of emotions.

Why did colors disappear?’” This shows that Jonas is changing, and is starting to be curious about the colors, and wants to find out more about his community. Jonas now can see that his community is different from the rest, and he wants to find out more. Before he got the job, Jonas wasn’t that curious, and he didn’t want to find out more; this may be because the community would not let him, but now that he has the job of the giver, he wants to find out more. Finally, on page 111, Jonas places his hand on Gabriel’s back and released the memory of the sailboat on the ocean. Jonas decides to not tell the Giver, and keep it a secret. If this happened before he got the job, he would have told everyone who he knows. He is becoming more brave, coming out of his shell, and is feeling more comfortable with the job and the rule that you are allowed to lie. In conclusion, Being Brave and Curious are very good characteristics to have, and starting off Jonas didn’t really have those. He is becoming braver from what he is finding out from the Giver, and also he is becoming more curious about the way he and his community members live in their

Even though, Jonas has a high honor in his community, it is a punishment because of all the pain he has to endure and also having to keep all the memories and his training to himself. During break time at school, all the students were talking about their first day of training, but Jonas stayed calm and listened to everyone "He was aware of his own admonition not to discuss his training" (Lowry 112). This shows that Jonas’s selection was a punishment because he could not be a normal kid and fit in with everybody else, making different. Also, after the Giver gave Jonas some painful memories he felt lonely because he was not allowed to talk about it and no one knew how he felt.

In the beginning of the novel,Giver, Jonas demonstrates that “ Being unique is valuable” can be better than sameness. When Jonas first sees color he finds out that being unique is better than being the same. Jonas has the ability to see beyond. In page 24, chapter 3, Jonas noticed a change about an apple, when it was tossed in mid air. Jonas tossed this apple back and forth with his best friend Asher, then again in the air, for an instant only. It changed. There was something unique about thawt apple. Then on page 86, chapter 12, Jonas noticed that his friend, Fiona’s hair has changed. Jonas looked for information. The Giver discovered, that Jonas was starting to see the color, red.

In the novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry also presented that Jonas’ ability to see color conjointly contributed to the theme in the novel, which was the importance of color, by proving that since Jonas can see color he can see the attractiveness in life. For example, in the novel, it indicates, “There would be a glimpse of green ----- the landscaped lawn around the Central Plaza; a bush on the river bank. The bright trucked in from the agricultural fields beyond the community boundary ------ seen in an instant, flash of brilliant color, but gone again, returning to their flat and hue less shade.” This explains what beauty Jonas sees in most of his daily life, and to him he would prefer those colors that he sees for a brief moment than the

Jonas has an elaborate relationship with his Mom,Dad and his Sister(Lily). In the book The Giver Jonas likes his parents and has been with them for a long time, but when Jonas met the Giver he saw a different perspective of his parents and Lily. The reason Jonas has a new perspective of his parent is because , the Giver showed him how to have feelings and show love. When Jonas came home that day from training he asked his parents do you love me then his mom said Jonas better choice of word and then his dad explained why